7.56 .localnames

This directive, which is available for ELF targets, marks each symbol in the comma-separated list of names
as a local symbol so that it will not be externally visible. If the symbols do not already exist, they will be created.

For targets where the .lcomm
directive (see Lcomm
) does not accept an alignment argument, which is the case for most ELF targets, the .local
directive can be used in combination with .comm
(see Comm
) to define aligned local common data.